Boehner’s Pointless Plan to Sue Obama for Abuse of Presidential Power

Political Kryptonite ^ | June 26, 2014 | Fred Dardick

[Diogenesis]

"Just have your personal judge pick this up, my beloved King."

[Servant of the Cross]

It's a lot of folks who've been in office way too long, who stopped listening to their constituents -- and, as a result, we see lots of theater, lots of empty symbolic votes and very little willingness to actually stand up and fight on behalf of the American people.

I will tell you the single biggest surprise in arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. I mean, we don't even talk about how to win a fight. There's no discussion. We talk about, "Hey, let's get a show vote so we can go tell our constituents we're doing something." But I promise you, Rush, if you had to sit through one Senate lunch, you'd be in therapy for a month.

... they've been here a long time, and they're beaten down, and they don't believe we can win. They don't believe it can happen, and the answer they say on every issue is, "No, we can't do it. We can't do it."

[shalom aleichem]

Kavuto jumped all over Michele Bachman for Congress filing a lawsuit. Why are they so afraid of the courts? Is this not the last resort of Congress short of impeachment?

I am surprised that Boehner took so long. But it is probably timing to get maximum impact before the November election.

[Jim Noble]

Why are they so afraid of the courts?

It's not that.

There is a court, already constituted and sitting, designated by the US Constitution to deal specifically with a President who fails to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

It's called the House of Representatives, and John Boehner is in charge of it.

No Article III court in the land will ever consent to provide the Weeper of the House with coverage for his cowardice.

[Bulwinkle]

I believe it was a ‘preemptive’ announcement, so it is in the public record if Obama uses executive order for immigration or ObamaCare, epa, etc.

[Boonie]

Way too little, way too late...It’s just CYA...

[2nd Amendment]

You complain and moan because Boehner does nothing. When he does this out of frustration, you’re still not happy. The fact is we have a manchurian tyrannical President and every attempt must be employed to stop the “chicago way” Presidency!

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

You complain and moan because Boehner does nothing. When he does this out of frustration, you’re still not happy.

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Unfortunately, this all looks like a poorly written soap opera. It’s clear Boehner, along with the establishment GOP, shares the democrats hatred of conservatives.

He’s not about to take action against his soul-mate!

[A. Morgan]

This talk of suing.. merely a fig leaf to make it seem like he is doing something.. when in fact what the Speaker has been doing is working with Obama and the inside Washington elite.

[Texas resident]

Boehner tossed the hot potato to the courts.
The suit might come up sometime in the next 5 years.

Thanks repubs.
Oh and by the way, all the house is up for re election in 5 months. We won’t forget.

[Arlis]

This idiotic move proves that Boehner is as stupid as Obama.

Impeach Boehner...........

[Diogenesis]

We agree.
The Obama enabler, EXEMPT John Boehern, DOES NOTHING.
DID NOTHING. DOES NOTHING. but preen.

This is talk.

So typical for the treasonous EXEMPT.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Jim Noble]

Boehner tossed the hot potato to the courts.

And they will refuse delivery. In some ways, Boehner sleazing out of his clear constitutional duty is an abuse of power as bad as Zero's.

[MrB]

As I posted pictorially yesterday - this is Boehner being a chicken-5h!+.

[tennmountainman]

Bonehead has the power of the purse. But he is unwilling to use it.
This court thing is nothing but a Kubuki dance by Bonehead.
It is meaningless.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

We are 6 years into the Obama era. Boehner did mot wait 6 years to express his disdain/punish Tea Party members of the House.

He did not wait 6 years to remove 4 members of Congress associated with the Tea Party from influential committee seats.

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from Dec 2012:
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-leaders-remove-4-plum-house-committees-195415482—finance.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker ‘s decision to take plum committee assignments away from four conservative Republican lawmakers after they bucked party leaders on key votes isn’t going over well with advocacy groups that viewed them as role models.

Reps. of Kansas and of Michigan will lose their seats on the House Budget Committee chaired by Rep. next year. And Reps. of North Carolina and of Arizona are losing their seats on the House Financial Services Committee.

The move is underscoring a divide in the Republican Party between tea party-supported conservatives and the House GOP leadership.

“This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would — on principle — instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America,” said Matt Kibbe, president of the tea party group FreedomWorks....”

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Of course it was denied at the time, but history has proven otherwise. Boehner hates the Tea Party, even though the Tea Party made it possible for him to be Speaker of the House.

Had Boehner spent as much time fighting Obama rather than those nasty Tea Party groups, we might be in a different place.

He bears as much blame as Obama.

[Tallguy]

“No Article III court in the land will ever consent to provide the Weeper of the House with coverage for his cowardice.”

There will be a lot of words wasted about this lawsuit. In the end a circuit court judge is going to chuck this suit so fast...

Harry & Nancy will be crowing about it.

[afsnco]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. There’s a Constitutional means of dealing with an executive that’s overstepping his Constitutional bounds. This is an entirely political question first, where they need to find the political courage to do what must be done. Then it becomes a legal question of his gross and repeated high crimes and misdemeanors.

They’re terrified of impeaching the first half-black president and he’s capitalizing on that fear. But that’s the ONLY Constitutional remedy. Just because there’ll be no conviction in the corrupt dimmo-controlled Senate is no excuse for the House to go whining to a federal court.